Woodward Academy

LEGO Challenges

• Challenge 1 Slide
• Challenge 2 Slide
• LEGO Smart Activities (archived version - pdf)
• LEGO Smart Kits (click Build this Set!)

What No Longer Matters

• 7 Survival Skills (Wagner)
• Deconstruction

Problem Solving Strategies

• BalancEdTech Problem-Solving
• "Less Is More" Discussion Area

FAILure

• F.A.I.L.
• Mindset
• Grit

Teacher Role(s)?

• Google Doc

Documentation & Reflection

• BalancEdTech Documentation & Reflection
• Effort & Achievement Rubric (Marzano w a twist)
• Student Blog
• Student Journal
• Discussion Rubric - elem
• Discussion Rubric - middle

Questioning

• Essential Questions
• CBL (Challenge Based Learning)
• BalancEdTech Questioning
• Question Types/Starters
• A Questioning Toolkit
• Wonderopolis
• Questioning Game- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Peer Feedback

• Critical Friends/Peer Feedback
• Commenting
• Quality Comments - "Top Ten" Activity
• Critique groups/authors chair
  • Thinkering Studio - Critique Session
  • PSI Peer Review (lower el)
  • PSI Friendly Qs (middle-upper el)
• Informal sharing
  • Helping each other
  • "Walking About"
  • Neighbors

• Formal sharing w/in and outside of class
  • Paying it forward/breadcrumbs/teaching others - Student publishing options
  • Mini Maker Faire - some sharing projects, some teaching skills,
  • Student Led Conferences
    • Portfolios
      • Portfolio Template
      • Sample Portfolio (3 years of Thinkering Studio)

Hack Your Act(ivity)

DRAFT template
please make a copy of the template** for your activity

• Small Shift, Big Impact - what tweaks or modification will you make to the activity that will grow toward student centered and owned learning? (think voice & choice from this morning's discussion)
• Question: How will you know? How will they?
  • Documentation
  • Reflection
• Challenge: Why Bother?
• Learn Openly:
• Contribute Generously: please share your doc w the team

Forward Feedback

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